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RE: U-Boat code names such as \\\'U-Polyp\\\'
Posted by: Ken Dunn ()
Date: April 17, 2001 12:04AM

<HTML>Hi Kim,

I believe these names were simply nicknames given to their boats by the crew. I see Högel uses the term “code name” in his book for those two boats but he gives no definition for it. I don’t think they weren’t used to disguise the name of the boat or keep the enemy from knowing which boat was being referred to and that is what I think of as a code name. For example U-509 (KK Karl-Heinz Wolf) was referred to as “U-Seewolf” by its crew because of the name of its first commander and the wolf’s head emblem on its conning tower but it wasn’t referred to in any official communications as “U-Seewolf”.

Regards,

Ken Dunn
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U-Boat code names and sponsoring cities STEVEN H. SANDMAN 04/13/2001 08:57AM
RE: U-Boat code names and sponsoring cities Ken Dunn 04/13/2001 12:13PM
RE: U-Boat code names and sponsoring cities Rainer Bruns 04/13/2001 12:56PM
RE: U-Boat code names and sponsoring cities Frank 04/13/2001 12:57PM
RE: U-Boat code names and sponsoring cities Frank 04/13/2001 01:05PM
RE: U-Boat code names such as \'U-Polyp\' Kim 04/16/2001 04:34PM
RE: U-Boat code names such as \\\'U-Polyp\\\' Ken Dunn 04/17/2001 12:04AM
RE: U-Boat code names such as \\\\\\\'U-Polyp\\\\\ Kim 04/18/2001 07:41PM


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